Saturday, August 4, 2018

This tweet contains an entirely playable, retro-style arcade game

A 280-character tweet might not seem like a lot of space, but if you’re crafty enough, it’s actually just enough to program a video game.

That’s the challenge that security engineer Alok Menghrajani gave himself: to squeeze a CD-ROM holding a retro-style video game into the space of a single tweet. After two weekends, he’d succeeded — the resulting code is a video game that can be booted up in a virtual machine, or burned onto a physical disk. The game, Menghrajani told Motherboard, is kind of like a cross between Tron and Snake.

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